Recently I created a demo an wanted to use just one FontAwesome icon and I notices that I need to add the whole ~600KB package for that. Clearly the package size is driven by the all the contained True Type Font files:

de.jensd:fontawesomefx-fontawesomefx:8.9

571 KB

So I thought about split the full package into separated artifacts per icon font: smaller footprint and easier to update (also the package versioning reflects the icon font version)

Coming with FontAwesomeFX 8.10

de.jensd:fontawesomefx-fontawesome:4.5.0	115.7 KB
de.jensd:fontawesomefx-materialdesignfont:1.4.57	246.4 KB
de.jensd:fontawesomefx-materialicons:2.1	92.2 KB
de.jensd:fontawesomefx-octicons:3.3.0	29.9 KB
de.jensd:fontawesomefx-weathericons:2.0	2.0 KB

PLUS:

de.jensd:fontawesomefx-common:8.10

13.4 KB

and optional:

de.jensd:fontawesomefx-controls:8.10

3.4 KB

Usage

E.g. to use WeatherIcons in your app you just have to add

repositories {
 jcenter()
}

dependencies {
 compile 'de.jensd:fontawesomefx-weathericons:2.0'
}

to your build.gradle and you are done with 16KB (font-pack + common) additional footprint.

You can run contained demo by calling: de.jensd.fx.glyphs.weathericons.demo.WeatherIconsDemoApp

Please give it a try and feed me back if it works!

Next steps are:

• rename it from FontAwesomeFX to e.g. IconsFX (in respect to the other supportet icon fonts) and
• focus on Java9 and JigSaw….

Here you can find the new bintray package.

Sources are here at Bitbucket

Report issues here